Niederlößnitz

In 1832, the owners of 85 vineyards above what is now Meißner Straße joined forces and founded the Niederlößnitz Vineyard Association.

The reason for this was the unclear affiliation of the vineyard land, on which numerous winegrowers' houses had been built in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Ecclesiastically and educationally they belonged to Kötzschenbroda, but judicially they were directly under the jurisdiction of the Dresden court and were thus exempt from many of the municipal burdens of a village. The surrounding Lößnitz villages refused to take on obligations such as poor relief for the winegrowers.

Therefore, municipal burdens were increasingly imposed on the home district, and so it had to give up its interim status.

In 1839, the political municipality of Niederlößnitz was founded with the election of the first municipal council in the Goldene Weintraube inn. This developed into an impressive villa town in the following years. Already 30 years later, more than 1,000 inhabitants lived here.

This made Niederlößnitz the second largest Lößnitz municipality after Kötzschenbroda.

The conversion of vineyards into building land as a result of the phylloxera disaster had led to a veritable population explosion.

Industrial development was deliberately prevented. Instead, the development was pushed forward in the "tasteful villa style" and the expansion of the infrastructure with electric street lighting, the Luisenstift as a school and numerous restaurants.

In 1923, the western communities of Lößnitz merged to form the large community of Kötzschenbroda and Niederlößnitz lost its municipal independence.